On May 14, OSI grantee, Community Law In Action (CLIA) will honor Alicia Wilson, senior vice president of impact investments and senior legal counsel for Port Covington Impact Investments LLC and an OSI Advisory Board member at its annual luncheon “Inspiring Voices.” CLIA is a nonprofit organization that aims to help young people become effective […]
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2018 Community Fellow in Toyota #makeup2mud campaign
Wednesday, April 03, 20192018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young was recently featured in a Toyota “#makeup2mud” video talking about her project, B-360, an organization that uses dirt bike culture as a way to introduce young people to educational and career opportunities in STEM fields. Young, who is a chemical engineer, wants to use the program to give young […]
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Technical.ly Baltimore covers 2018 OSI Fellow’s tech response to homelessness in the trans community
Wednesday, April 03, 2019Technical.ly Baltimore recently featured 2018 OSI Community Fellow Ava Pipitone and her fellowship program, HostHome. The project, which is still in its early stages, will use technology to connect people in the transgender community to emergency housing. Pipitone’s initial pilot program was able to sign up for hosts who housed 21 guests. She’s hoping to […]
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Charm City gets national TV debut on PBS
Wednesday, April 03, 2019Charm City, a film that features OSI Community Fellows Clayton Guyton (2000), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, and Alex Long (2017), who works at Safe Streets and founded the McElderry Youth Redemption Boxing Program as part of his Fellowship, will be broadcast nationally on PBS series Independent Lens on April 22. In 2018, and with support from OSI-Baltimore, the film’s […]
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OSI Community Fellow wins NASW-MD Social Worker of the Year award
Tuesday, April 02, 2019Last week, 2017 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Eric Jackson received the 2019 National Association of Social Workers-Maryland (NASW-MD) Social Worker of the Year award. The awards honor NASW-MD members, student members, and a local citizen who have made outstanding contributions to the social work field or to the community.
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2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young featured on Mashable
Friday, March 22, 2019Recently, online media platform Mashable featured an interview with 2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young as part of its ongoing series, The Women Fixing STEM. In Ride On: How urban dirt biking is getting black youth into STEM, Young talks about her Fellowship project, B-360, an organization that uses dirt bike culture to introduce young […]
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2018 Community Fellow honored as “Inspiring” woman in building and design industry
Monday, March 18, 20192018 OSI Community Fellow Shelley Halstead was recently featured on the Tile Shop Blog as one of four “Inspiring Women in the Home Building and Design Industry.” Halstead’s fellowship, “Black Women Build-Baltimore” seeks to provide home ownership opportunities for women of color by providing training to fix, repair, and renovate homes. Halstead and the program recently acquired […]
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Forbes names Baltimore’s Nicole Mundell among women who made a difference in the midterms
Wednesday, March 13, 2019Forbes Magazine included Nicole Mundell, executive director of OSI grantee Out For Justice and an advisory board member of another OSI grantee, Baltimore Votes, in its piece, “These 8 Women Made A Difference In The 2018 Midterms Where It Mattered Most,” for her work supporting full voter participation for returning citizens in Maryland. As Forbes notes, Out […]
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OSI Fellow Shelley Halstead pushes for housing that aims to end the cycle of poverty
Wednesday, March 13, 2019This week, the Baltimore Sun published an op-ed written by 2018 Community Fellow Shelley Halstead regarding the proposal by The Community Builders, a non-profit development corporation that purchased land in Druid Heights, with the original intention of building mixed-use housing. Halstead, who is the founder of Black Women Build – Baltimore, an organization that trains black […]
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Dr. Lawrence Brown writes about the real danger of racism in the General Assembly
Thursday, March 07, 2019This week, Dr. Lawrence Brown, Morgan State University Professor and 2012 OSI Community Fellow addressed the issue of Maryland Delegate Mary Ann Lisanti’s use of a racial slur to describe part of her district of Prince George’s County in an op-ed for the recently relaunched Baltimore Beat. “While many are ‘appalled’ and ‘outraged,’ the deeper […]
